Nath took the oath of office at 1:30 pm and the ceremony was preceded by an all-religion prayer meeting.

While BJP leaders have taken the occasion to target the Madhya Pradesh CM designate Kamal Nath on the day of the swearing-in ceremony, Congress urged all the parties not to politicise the issue.

BSP chief Mayawati, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav have skipped the oath-taking ceremony in Jaipur

After stunning victory of Congress in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, chief ministers of the three key states will be sworn in at different ceremonies in their respective states on Monday.

The district comprises seven Assembly seats of which four are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, making Mr Nath ineligible to contest from them.

SAD MLA Bikram Singh Majithia raised the issue in the state Assembly a day after his party colleague Manjinder Singh Sirsa alleged in Delhi that Nath had a hand in the anti-Sikh riots.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Ashok Gehlot and Sachin Pilot as Rajasthan CM and Dy CM respectively in Jaipur at 10 am. He will also attend the oath ceremony of Kamal Nath as Madhya Pradesh CM at 1:30 pm on the same day.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi put a stamp on Kamal Nath's name as Madhya Pradesh CM after hours of hectic parleys.

Congress party president Rahul Gandhi is likely to announce the names of chief ministers in Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh on Friday.

The announcement was made following the meeting of Congress legislature party in Bhopal.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, who was also considered to be in the race for CM's post, proposed name of Kamal Nath for the chief ministerial post, sources told IndiaTV.

Shivraj Singh Chouhan has won from his traditional Budhni seat by a margin of 58,999 votes, defeating former Union minister and senior Congress leader Arun Yadav.

In May 2018, to lead the party in the upcoming assembly election, he was elected as the president of Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee.

Replying to a question on unfulfilled promises of the Madhya Pradesh government, he said the government had failed to provide jobs to youth, relief from debt to farmers and security to women.

The video purportedly shows Nath asking workers to take out the figures from last elections and do a "postmortem" as to why the polling percentage was only 50-60 per cent in the Muslim majority booths.

In the video, Kamal Nath asks Muslims to be quiet till the completion of assembly elections, adding “RSS will be sorted out after the polls”.

In the letter, released to the media, Nath urged Lord Mahakaleshwar, a form of Lord Shiva, to bless the people of Madhya Pradesh so that they vote out the BJP and end the nearly 15-year-old "misrule" of the saffron party.

Kamal Nath said the CBI was asked to investigate the Vyapam scam but the agency has started delivering the verdict. "This proves that this investigating agency has turned into a 'Shakha' of the RSS."

Senior Congress leader Kamal Nath on Tuesday said that party vice president Rahul Gandhi should be elevated to the post of President through consensus without holding any organisational election for this purpose.

The Indian National Congress (INC) on Friday denied media reports of veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath planning to join the the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).